{"id":27429,"date":"2021-01-27T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/27\/from-waste-to-play-space-the-project-turning-indias-scrap-into-playgrounds"},"modified":"2021-01-27T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T10:30:28","slug":"from-waste-to-play-space-the-project-turning-indias-scrap-into-playgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27429","title":{"rendered":"From waste to play space: the project turning India&#8217;s scrap into playgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Realising safe play places were in short supply while waste materials were abundant, a group of friends set about transforming life for local children<\/p>\n<p>Children of all ages cluster on top of tin cans painted in green, red and yellow embedded in the ground, others hang off a climbing frame made of rubber tubes. Others clamber energetically up a wall of colourfully painted repurposed tyres while some play on giant dominoes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyres are versatile,\u201d said Pooja Rai. \u201cWe use as many as 70 tyres in one playground to build seesaws and slides as well as elephants, octopuses and bikes that keep the children engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jan\/27\/from-waste-to-play-space-the-project-turning-indias-scrap-into-playgrounds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realising safe play places were in short supply while waste materials were abundant, a group of friends set about transforming life for local childrenChildren of all ages cluster on top of tin cans painted in green, red and yellow embedded in the groun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,59,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27430,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions\/27430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}